A short history of contraception and religion
-Egyptian
hieroglyphics from about 1550 B.C.E. describing a tampon used for contraception -Australian douche ads
(about 1900)in the "Wife's
Guide and Friend"Fresca douche powder (early 20th century,
U.S.A.)
Selections from the first American edition of Married
Love (first published 1918), Dr. Marie Stopes'
book that was long banned in America. Dr. Stopes founded the first birth-control
clinic in the British Empire, in 1921, and it's still running.See also early contraceptive sponges disguised for other uses. Ad for Ergoapiol, treatment for painful or missing menstrual periods or
other irregularities of the menstrual cycle - or for abortion, 1904. Patent medicine at this museum.